It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.